How to build sustainable peace in Ukraine? 1. Set and affirm the mental border with Russia as a state and Russian World as an ideology 2. Establish and foster personal friendly contacts with people across the Ukrainian border with Russia. 3. Foster and promote true multiculturalism and security aware tolerance. Promote open peaceful Islam like we do have and cherish in Ukraine. 4. Educate as many active adults as possible on conflict studies, dialogue practices, social psychology, and behavioural economic, human security. Those people will build the bridges to minds of the others. Those people will be able to negotiate peace with neighbours. In occupied territories, in Russia. Using the values and interests, not the conflicts and differences, as negotiation starting points. Like in the history pictured in the “Bridge of spies” movie. “We have to have the conversations our governments can't”. That is what the Ukrainian Peacebuilding School is doing and that is what gives us hope and confidence that someday we will break that Wall.

1. Ukrainian
Peacebuilding School
Time
to Build the Roads
and Repair the Bridges

2. Glienicke Bridge
aka the "Bridge of Spies"
Berlin, 1962
“Bridge of spies” 2015

3. Road to Mariupol,
Ukraine, 2015

4. 53 years, 2123 km
between the Borders
Iron Curtain
Moves Eastward

5. Regions We Work At
We work at
Ukrainian
controlled
territories only.
Bordering occupied
territories, frozen
conflict and past
bloody conflict.

6. Centuries Old Fight
for Independence
of Ukraine…

7. …Turned into the
Bloody War with Russia
“Forgive for
everything. Moscow”
Photo by Vitaliy Ovcharenko.
Debaltseve, February 2015

8. Why the
Occupation
Was
Inevitable?

9. #1 Identity conflicts
Soviet Past
Ukrainian
Present
European
Future?

10. #2 Conflicts based
on ethnicity or religion
Icon of Stalin,
Russia
“Go Away, Moskali, from
the Ukrainian land!”

11. #3 Conflicts of
historical narratives
West East

12. #4 Conflicts of visions
of the future
Country
by the
hands
of kids
Graves of Protestants killed by
occupants in 2014. Slovyansk

13. Conflicts
could lead
to divided
society

14. Divided Societies.
Israel
Similarity
Russia does not recognize
the Ukrainian nation
and the right to Ukrainian
State

15. Divided Societies.
Northern Ireland
Similarity
Conflict with Russia
is 350+ years old

16. Attempt to Divide Ukraine
Kharkiv.
January 12, 2014
Attempt failed
except in Donbas

17. Identity Conflicts are
Virtual
Why?
Perception of Russian World is
based on TV image made in
Moscow and not real life
experience
Soviet Union does not exist
Majority of Ukrainians never
visited Europe and have
no idea what it is

18. We do not
want divided
future for
Ukraine!
Semenivka, near Slovyansk, 2014-2015

19. We Develop Strategies of
Transformation and
Prevention of Borderline Conflicts

20. Major Problems of Ukrainian
Society We Detected
 Bad Communications
 Inability to Plan the
Future Proactively
 Misunderstanding of
Security
 Absence of Common
Criteria of Evaluation
of Realty
What is the sense
of this fence?
Bakhmut, 2015

21. Misunderstanding of
Security
“Security is the
absence of
threats”
Conclusion of 36
new Ukrainian
leaders.
Leaders of Transformations School, November 2015

22. Ukraine is NOT Russia
War of
symbols
“We are
Russia.
We are not”
Kramatorsk,
WWII
fortification
rebuilt in 2013.

23. Inability to Plan the
Future Proactively
Why?
Genocidal History
Cult of Death
Enforced by the
Soviets
Ukrainians during the Great Famine of 1932-1933

24. Value of Life
“I lived in a country where
we were taught since our
childhood to die.
We were taught the death.
We were told that the
human exists to give
themselves, to burn, to
sacrifice themselves.”
Svetlana Alekseevich, Belarussian writer
Nobel Lecture. December 7, 2015

25. Face of War.
Every Life Counts!
Photo exhibition in Kramatorsk, August 2015

26. Bad Communications
Bad Roads
Roads lead to
nowhere
Broken or Fragile
Bridges
Bridges connect
wrong points

27. Bridges Still Broken
Bridges destroyed in
2014 are still broken.
Donetsk oblast, North

28. Fragile Bridges
Temporary bridge in Kharkiv
existed 53 years

29. Solid Secure Bridges
New bridge built in
Kharkiv, 2011

30. Absence of Common
Criteria of Evaluation
of Realty
What is the purpose of
this bridge?

31. Public Spaces
Shaping Community

32. How to Build Sustainable
Peace in Ukraine
1. Mental border with Russia as a state
and Russian World as an ideology
2. Personal friendly contacts with people
across the Ukrainian border
3. True multiculturalism and security
aware tolerance. Open Peaceful Islam
4. Education of active adults on conflict
studies, dialogue practices, social
psychology, behavioral economic,
human security.

33. “We have to have
the conversations
our governments can't” “Bridge of spies” 2015

34. Common Future
Kharkiv. 24 May, 2014
Heroes do not die!

35. Thank you for attention!
Nataliya Zubar, Kharkiv, Ukraine, @nataliezubar